CVE-2016-8974 (GCVE-0-2016-8974)

Vulnerability from cvelistv5 – Published: 2017-02-23 16:00 – Updated: 2024-08-06 02:35
VLAI
Summary
IBM Rhapsody DM 4.0, 5.0 and 6.0 is vulnerable to a denial of service, caused by an XML External Entity Injection (XXE) error when processing XML data. A remote attacker could exploit this vulnerability to expose highly sensitive information or consume all available memory resources. IBM Reference #: 1997798.
Severity
8.1 (High)
CVSS:3.0/AV:N/AC:L/PR:L/UI:N/S:U/C:H/I:N/A:H
CWE
  • Obtain Information
Assigner
ibm
References
Impacted products
Vendor Product Version
IBM Corporation Rational Rhapsody Design Manager Affected: 4.0.2
Affected: 3.0
Affected: 3.0.0.1
Affected: 4.0
Affected: 4.0.1
Affected: 4.0.3
Affected: 4.0.4
Affected: 4.0.5
Affected: 4.0.6
Affected: 5.0
Affected: 3
Affected: 4.0.7
Affected: 5.0.2
Affected: 5.0.1
Affected: 6.0
Affected: 6.0.1
Affected: 6.0.2
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